COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado — A global mapping project that has been providing churches and missionaries with information for 33 years will close its doors June 30, according to Christianity Today (CT).
Global Mapping International (GMI), which began long before Google Maps, pioneered digital mapping and instructed many missions organizations on how to conduct research. GMI is best known for its work on the resources used in Operation World.
It is disbanding because of a lack of donors, according to GMI President and CEO Jon Hirst. Funding research, he said, has always been more difficult than funding missionaries themselves, and it is a hard sell with millennials, who would rather donate to causes that provide things like food or water.
“When we tried to make the transition to multiple revenue streams we couldn’t make it quickly enough to stay sustainable,” Hirst said, according to CT. (TAB)
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